20 October 1998 | Matador Records | OLE-322-1 |
01. Calvin 02. Magical Colors 03. Do You Wanna Get Heavy? 04. High Gear 05. Talk About The Blues 06. I Wanna Make It All Right 2.1. Lovin’ Machine |
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Heavy black vinyl with printed paper inner sleeve (also issued on vinyl in the UK and on CD in Japan with bonus tracks).
There was also a later re-pressing featuring a “150 Gram” foil sticker on the outside of the shrink-wrap and the label area has a seconder wider ‘trench’ not present on this version. Also includes the unlisted Calvin (Reprise) after the last track, also featured on the CD release. Calvin, Magical Colors, Heavy, Talk About The Blues were all released as singles. An earlier version of Attack was released on Selector Dub Narcotic and titled Blues Explosion Attack, this has much more raw live-sound and totally different lyrics. High Gear is titled Italian Country Pickup on the Japanese promo CD. The title of the song Bernie is a tribute to a Blues Explosion fan who follows the band around the country. The song was originally “called Get Down With Brian for this Dub Narcotic guy, but Albini called it Get Down With Bernie. We shortened it as a tribute to him and to the friends of the Blues Explosion.” – extract from Rolling Stone article Track X Track. The song Talk About The Blues was written as a direct response to a Rolling Stone review of Now I Got Worry and Q&A with Jon Spencer and the title is a reference to I Do Not Play Not Rock ‘n’ Roll by Mississippi Fred McDowell. The song is discussed in detail in both a CMJ New Music Monthly article titled ‘Acme Blues Explosives, INC’ and a later Rolling Stone interview. Talk About The Blues was commercially released as single on 7″ (UK), CD (UK/US) and 12″ (UK/US). In 2010 Shout! Factory / Shove! Records issued Acme + Acme Plus as a double CD with numerous additional tracks. |
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Studios: Electrical, RPM, Greene Street, Waterworks, Dub Narcotic, Big House Mastering: Howie Weinberg and Andy Van Dette at Masterdisk 1.1. Calvin 1.2. Magical Colors 1.3. Do You Wanna Get Heavy? 1.4. High Gear 1.5. Talk About The Blues 1.6. I Wanna Make It All Right 2.1. Lovin’ Machine 2.2. Bernie 2.3. Blue Green Olga 2.4. Give Me A Chance 2.5. Desperate 2.6. Torture 2.7a Attack 2.7b. Calvin Reprise |
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ARTWORK: Photography: Stephanie Chernikowski Design: David Warner BARCODE: 7 44861 03221 2 RUN-OUT GROOVE ENGRAVING: |